1. Pharmacogenetics: Implications of race and ethnicity on defining genetic profiles for personalized medicine 
Victor E. Ortega, MD, Deborah A. Meyers, PhD 
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 
Volume 133, Issue 1, Pages (January 2014)
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2. Fig 1
Common and rare genetic variants in human disease. On the basis of the “common disease–common allele” hypothesis, multiple common genetic polymorphisms (alleles or variants) with small-to-modest effect sizes contribute additively to a common disease. GWASs have detected multiple common variants associated with risk for common diseases, such as hypertension or asthma. The “common disease–rare allele hypothesis” states that rare genetic variants with a large effect size contribute to risk for common diseases. Rare genetic variants cannot be detected with classic GWASs and have been evaluated with family-based genetic studies, admixture mapping, and DNA sequencing.
Adapted from Tsuji.14
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3. Fig 2
Ancestries of recently admixed ethnic groups in the United States. The first human colonization of Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period (purple arrow) was accompanied by a “bottleneck” or collapse of genetic diversity in the resulting European white ancestral population. Recent mixing between more genetically diverse ancient African ancestral populations with European white and Native American subjects (blue arrow represents the first human colonization of the Americas) during the European colonization of the Americas (red arrows) and the African slave trade (green arrows) resulted in different recently admixed ethnic groups with varying degrees of genetic diversity. The flow of genetic diversity is represented by the thickness of the arrows, with thicker arrows reflecting greater genetic diversity (ie, resulting from a greater number of recombination events, shorter genomic regions of linkage disequilibrium, and a greater frequency of rare variants).
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4. Fig 3
Relationship of global African ancestry with lung function in African American subjects. Kumar et al33 demonstrated an inverse relationship between the percentage of global African ancestry and baseline FEV1 (measured in liters) in self-identified African American men and women, as shown in A and B, respectively. Global African ancestry was estimated by using ancestry informative genetic markers.
Reproduced from Kumar et al.33
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5. Fig 4
Illustration of admixture mapping. The hypothesis behind mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium or admixture mapping is that chromosomes from an admixed population (shown with red and blue genetic regions from a specific ancestry) contain a susceptibility allele for reduced therapeutic responsiveness, which is more frequent in the red (ancestry A) ancestral region versus the blue (ancestry B) ancestral region. A hypothetical mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium for a pharmacogenetic study would identify an increased proportion of ancestry A at a susceptibility locus in subjects who are less likely to respond to a pharmacologic therapy (region intersected by thick black line).
Reproduced from Montana and Pritchard.94
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